"Hello." The girl nodded to him in a friendly way. The new term had not officially begun yet, so entering the boys' dormitory building was no big deal. Still, after nearly colliding with a careless boy, a blush appeared on her face. Seeing him shyly shift his gaze to her hands, she offered an unnecessary explanation, lifting the bag of laundry detergent she was holding and saying with a smile, "Uh, I came to borrow some laundry detergent."
"Sorry," he apologized for his clumsiness, then asked, "Uh, could you tell me how to get to the freshman dormitory?"
She paused and said, "The architecture department is to the left, and the civil engineering department is to the right." Then she slipped past him and went out the door, leaving him startled, flustered, and wistful...
This is a coming-of-age story about the studies and romances of university students in southern China in the 1990s, dedicated to the youth that has passed us by.
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